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Lip Lines: A Dead Giveaway

At Castleknock Cosmetic Clinic Dublin we love fixing lip lines. Lip lines are one of the most common complaints we hear our mature patients complain about. Mature patients want their smoker’s lines corrected but yet they worry about having large lips or looking like they have their lips enlarged!

These vertical lip lines are commonly referred to as “smoker’s lines” or “lipstick bleed lines”. The annoying lip line wrinkles are caused by a variety of factors, including age, UV light exposure, and genetic predisposition, repetitive lip movement lifestyle habits like smoking or drinking from a straw.

Vertical lip lines, or wrinkles around the lips are not always caused by smoking, despite its common reference as smokers lines. Actually we commonly see them in non-smokers. Lip lines are generally caused by repetitive piercing lip movements, and in some individuals are hard not to get. Unfortunately these lip lines are most visible when a woman puts lipstick on which then bleeds into these lines, which makes these wrinkles more noticeable, hence their other common name lipstick lines.

Once these vertical lip lines develop, treatment usually requires a delicate approach so the area still looks natural, but without the lines.

Soft hyaluronic acid dermal fillers like Belotero Soft, Juvederm Volbella and Restylane Fyness are the newest product to treat these irritating wrinkles. These specialist market leading dermal filler ranges have one thing in common, they are softer, thinner and more homogeneous fillers than those used in other areas of the face. Some contain the numbing agent anaesthetic lidocaine for improved comfort during and after your procedure.

Lip line fillers are made up of fine particle hyaluronic acid, a natural sugar substance found in the body. Our natural supply of hyaluronic lessens with age, and fine lines and loss of collagen structure occurs as a result. Because of their unique small particle size, these specialist lip line fillers can replenish hydration in the area where they’re injected while the naturally plumping substance minimizes fine vertical smoker’s lines.

Some people are born with naturally full lips. However, even full lips will grow thinner and longer over time due to the effects of sun damage, gravity and aging, and wrinkles will eventually develop around the mouth. For those who wish to regain their lips’ natural volume and shape, or for those who were born with naturally thin lips, lip augmentation or enhancement procedures offer a successful solution. The most common procedure for lip augmentation involve the use of injection with dermal fillers.

To improve on the appearance of lips, let’s first review what landmarks contribute to an aesthetically pleasing lip augmentation

1- Lips are not uniform; and too avoid ending up with an unnatural look, the upper lip is not straight, but has the overall shape of a soft letter “M”.
2- There is a natural depression in the middle of the upper lip, called the “cupid’s bow”
3- The cupid’s bow is formed by two vertical lines that extend from the base of the nose, called the “philtrum.”
4- The natural lip has a slight fullness at its edge called the “roll” or the “vermillion border.”

At Castleknock Cosmetic Clinic Dublin’ I see some people who come to me for lip augmentation correction after having their lips injected in an unskilled fashion; simply volumising the lips and ending up with the so-called “hot dog” lips; that is, lips which are bigger but ultimately shapeless because all of the landmarks mentioned above have been erased. I, on the other hand, carefully re-sculpt these lip landmarks to ensure the most natural result. The procedure is performed after careful inspection of the lip characteristics and after nerve block numbing.